Survived the trip to Colombia!
In fact, I came away with the feeling it is a place to look for investment opportunities. The stigma of cartels and communist guerillas may last a while, but the business level is growing. Producing some 1 million bpd of crude, building eight massive hydroelectric dam projects, much new investment money pouring in from China and Asia.....
The trip was awesome, and I left realizing the US is not paying very close attention to what is REALLY going on there.
And the people are wonderful, happy, friendly, positive people.
I had a wonderful time.
AB

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